Dear Yin,
Perhaps you relish in the glory of being exoticized. Oh yes, being
the hot Canadian Asian girl that you are, I'm sure you are aware what
a true rarity you must be among New Yorkers. ( And as I recall, you
do like to go for a spin around the pole at Chocolate. :P) As for me,
however, I would rather gauge out my eyes than to ever be viewed as
"exotic." I just simply find the idea of being "exotic" to be quite
distasteful.
What I find even more distasteful, disgusting in fact, are the social
and economic implications of the privilege that is continually
bestowed on our white friends. It offends me that, for merely being
white, a person can get paid more in three days than the average
monthly salary of an engineer in China. It disgusts me, that the
privileged continue to be advantaged in China, while the man peddling
his wares for 1 or 2 kuai on the street corner, much less the farmer
in rural China could only dream of such an opportunity - but
unfortunately, they were not born white. It disgusts me more that to
be modern in China, to seek upward mobility and advancement in China,
requires some sort of imitation of "whiteness" or of the "West" or
that being "white" is so unquestionably associated with the positives
of being "foreign" and "developed" - God forbid a black man show
up.
I totally agree, the world is what it is. But that's no excuse for
ignorance. So yeah, if you are a good-looking, cash strapped, white
person, by all means, go for it. You gotta do what you gotta right?
It's just too bad, I won't ever get paid for standing around and being
Asian. To each their own. As for me, I merely think that it is a
shame that some things in this world are so outrageously ridiculous
and that things like a person's being white can be made into a
commodity and attraction.
And as for something being totally irrelevant except for the fact that
it is an example of something totally absurd:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/northeast/view.bg?articleid=1247840&srvc=home&position=emailed
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